On Friday 07 January 2005 22:43, Delirium wrote:
I should also point out that that's a completely irrelevant example, and discriminatory as well. It has a mere 20 languages
EU pays translators for all these languages. It is amazing that they can manage to fund their translation projects, considering that in some countries (baltic states) translation was not a profession until 1990's.
discriminate against many languages spoken in the EU, which which are minority languages and so have lesser official status. For example, there is no link to Occitan, or Basque.
http://www.europarl.eu.int/charter/civil/pdf/con33_en.pdf
The PDF file states: "Cultural and linguistic diversity in Europe lies at the heart of fundamental rights for its citizens as the integration process advances". EU does recognise diversity.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/index_en.html
From the above page you can see the 20 official languages of the EU. Can you think of any other confederation in history or in the modern world having 20 official languages?
Welsh has been spoken in the Europarl. Sorry but I don't have a handy link right now.